Everything Everything playing London Roundhouse for ‘Fightback’ (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Everything Everything have announced the release of their fifth studio album, shortly after returning with their first new music since 2018.
Re-Animator is out on August 21st, made up of eleven new tracks including that recent single In Birdsong and today’s preview Arch Enemy. The album’s genesis comes from frontman Jonathan Higgs’ fascination with the psychologist Julian Jaynes’ ‘bicameral mind’ theory – the premise that early humans had two distinct, autonomous sides of the brain. “This idea of the divided self captivated me,” Higgs says.
“Jaynes attributes this to the origin of gods, people ascribing deity status to this voice they could hear in their head. All this blew my mind, and I started thinking of ways I could make this a central concept. It really touched me. So across the whole record there are millions or references to this theory – to having a split brain, two selves, hearing voices.”
Re-Animator tracklist:
Lost Powers
Big Climb
It Was A Monstering
Planets
Moonlight
Arch Enemy
Lord Of The Trapdoor
Black Hyena
In Birdsong
The Actor
Violent Sun